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Decline and fall: theories — Homework
Answer in complete sentences.
- 1.What did Edward Gibbon argue was the main cause of Rome's decline?
- 2.What is the traditional end date for the Western Roman Empire, and what happened then?
- 3.Name three different types of causes modern historians point to for Rome's decline.
- 4.What is the Henri Pirenne-style argument that Rome did not really "fall"?
- 5.Write a paragraph comparing Gibbon's theory to the modern multi-causal theory, stating which the evidence better supports.
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